2006-10-21 13:14:42 · 12 answers · asked by moakakia 1 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
I was actually contemplating this the other day within the confinements of my cublicle walls.
Absolutely! Someone else looms over you while you perform duties to make extremely lucrative gains for them. In turn, you are given a pittance for doing someone else's dirty work as they sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Quite sick, isn't it?
2006-10-21 13:21:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Before you start whining about all the "injustices" you have to endure in the modern marketplace, you should take some time to study what REAL slavery was all about.
I recommend you start with "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave," and then move on to the works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. All of those people, plus many others whose books are still in print, experienced slavery up close and personal.
Perhaps then, when you have some understanding of slavery, you will appreciate working and living in this day and age.
2006-10-21 13:31:19 · answer #2 · answered by sandislandtim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a Marxist point of view. :) I happen to agree with Marx more than many other sociological readings I've read, so I'd have to say that yes, I do believe that work is modern slavery. Sure, we get paid but too many people are overworked and underpaid and too scared to do anything because they will lose their job. And too many employers use fear to keep their employees in line, which reminds me a lot of slavery.
2006-10-22 05:28:42 · answer #3 · answered by bashleyf2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slavery is when you don't make enough money to survive, and you're always having to watch for upsetting the slave owners. Also, it's when you're treated unwell when you are not doing a good enough job
2006-10-21 13:35:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really because when you go to work, you go voluntarily and not because someone made you. You can quit at any time whereas slavery doesn't allow you to do anything but obey.
2006-10-21 14:49:53 · answer #5 · answered by me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell yes. Wages are not keeping up with inflation and the stock market had the nerve to say that increase wages would cause inflation. However, nothing is said about executives getting pay raises and lucrative bonuses.
2006-10-21 13:23:43 · answer #6 · answered by Laughing Libra 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe we live in an era of technofeudalism where a man's wages is given to mortgage companies and credit card companies and man barely has enough to survive on.
2006-10-21 13:52:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, I'm sorry but if you happen to think this way you may be lazy or if you work your *** off work may easily seem like slavery but in truth is what keeps us humans social, active, and have great fun filled weekends if humans didn't work i think we would become lazy blobs!
2006-10-21 13:55:44 · answer #8 · answered by foofoobunny12 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I taste to work. The problem is when the environment in the company is not good or the salário não compensa.
2006-10-21 13:24:35 · answer #9 · answered by Válhamedeus! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is work.....Slavery was abolished....although some employers believe that you will work harder under opression and low wages....
2006-10-21 14:26:49 · answer #10 · answered by 35 YEARS OF INTUITION 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋